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To: annalex
He died and we are to die

Romans 8
10 If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
11 But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.

Romans 7 4 Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.

Ephesians 2:6-7
4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,
5 even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
6 and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
7 so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

This is past tense, He’s already done it. Rejoice for He is risen.

31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us?
32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?
33 Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies;
34 who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us.

May Christ our Lord bless you and yours.

13 posted on 04/15/2021 9:38:26 AM PDT by MAAG (Thank Him for His patience, it’s a measure of His love.)
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To: MAAG

Neither of the scripture you quote negates the fact that our life on earth consists in great part of suffering, and that our suffering should be in imitation of Christ Who suffered.


14 posted on 04/15/2021 3:24:02 PM PDT by annalex (fear them not)
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